as in appointment
an agreement to be present at a specified time and place
a midnight assignation between adulterers at a downtown hotel
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Recent Examples of assignation
Taylor was booked into the Polk County Jail on Thursday and was charged with negligent child abuse without bodily harm and soliciting another for prostitution, lewdness or assignation.
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2025
Madonna, shot in black and white, is seen walking down a hotel hallway toward an assignation, limping slightly in heels and a black raincoat, clutching her head as if in pain.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025
Handsome when not in costume, Chaplin was catnip to women and reckless in his assignations.
—Diane Kiesel, airmail.news, 1 Mar. 2025
Without spoiling much of anything, TVLine can say that an upcoming episode will deal with at least one of the characters’ feelings about the quasi-consensual assignation.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 7 Feb. 2025
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2025
Madonna, shot in black and white, is seen walking down a hotel hallway toward an assignation, limping slightly in heels and a black raincoat, clutching her head as if in pain.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2025
Handsome when not in costume, Chaplin was catnip to women and reckless in his assignations.
—Diane Kiesel, airmail.news, 1 Mar. 2025
Without spoiling much of anything, TVLine can say that an upcoming episode will deal with at least one of the characters’ feelings about the quasi-consensual assignation.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assignation
Noun
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Looking back, the chain of events — the appendicitis, the podcast connection, the impossible appointment, the miraculous cancellation — feels almost too extraordinary to be a coincidence.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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This one-time appointment treats the postpartum period like a brief event, rather than an ongoing recovery journey that requires continued support.—
Beth Ann Mayer,
Parents,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Customize it with her name and birthday or anniversary date.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Glamour,
13 Oct. 2025
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The Movie streaming date with no additional details.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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These include the technical challenges of making safe rendezvous in orbit and the economic challenge of making refueling systems and servicing platforms cost-effective.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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Sean Penn, though, didn’t need to leave his house for such a rendezvous.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Assignation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assignation. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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